A new iPhone origin book has one Apple exec calling bullsh*t

The iPhone doesn’t have any physical keys. We all know this. But according to a forthcoming book from Motherboard editor Brian Merchant on the creation of the genre-defining smartphone, it would have if Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller had his way.
There’s only one problem: Schiller says Merchant’s telling of the story is untrue.
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After an excerpt from the book The One Device: The secret history of the iPhone was published by The Verge, Schiller swiftly took to Twitter to deny the claim.
But before we get to the denial,